David E. Gervais, you have outdone yourself!
 

I have to tell you that I spent about 15 minutes mesmerized by your new spash screen on v1.91. I was taken by the detail in every way. The EEE ships battling the Jraenar space station is subtle but noticable to any who play frequently. The beams impacting the shields was expertly depicted. I noticed the detail on the planet surface; tropical forests, mountains, oceans of blue. I noticed the thin shells of atmospheres which are probably very close to scale. (I immediately identified the planet in the forground as having an oxygen atmosphere.) I noticed the clouds (with shadows on the surface!!!) showing coriolis effects. I found the 3D sense of being out in space looking at this battle scene being played out to be a perfect representation of the game. I salute you sir!

Slick.

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I must say though, that is sure a big space station! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: David E. Gervais, you have outdone yourself!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Size and distance in space always seem distorted. If it looks like everything is to scale, then it's probably a fake. I took this pic with my digital camera so I can't bring myself to question the scale.

Besides, the sure sign that it is a good image is that Fyron is not impressed by it. (You see he lives in space so the pic looks like a normal' every-day 'average' run of the mill stock photo to him.)

Slick: I'm glad you like the new intro pic.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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indEEEd, very nice pic http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Yeah, David, I was also amazed by the picture. Thanks for the good work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Ditto. Great pic.

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Great work - too bad you didn't get your name in the artwork credits! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

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I will jump on the bandwagon now...Great job on the new screen David! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I cannot wait until SE5 comes out so we can see your handy work there as well.

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LOL, I love this! The music finally works, is it just me or this thing using the music saved to my hard drive. It has to be! There is no way MM would include R-rated music. Is this a bug?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You didn't happen to have a music-CD in the drive??

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PES that is a preview for SEX MM just keeps adding bonuses for us die hard seiv fans http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Nope, nothing in my drive, not even the SE4G disc. And my music isn't even stored in my Program Files directory. It stands alone.

The music at start-up: "Right Thurr"
The music at main game screen: "Without Me"

I'm OK with this, really! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Mm, I like SEX also, that's how I got three kids!

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I played with it some more, you know delete the song that was playing and here is the results:

At start-up it always plays “Right Therr”
At main game screen it will play different songs. This has to be the greatest single feature added yet. One question, could MM have made it to rotate songs? I mean if “Without Me” is playing at the main game screen it just plays over and over and …

Re: David E. Gervais, you have outdone yourself!
 

I'm continually amazed at how threads get hijacked. Back to the original idea...

Great job David!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Speaking of graphics, I revamped the main buttons (added some more contrast/brightness/darkness) they now really light up when you pass the mouse cursor over them.

I also gave the 'orders' buttons a new look. (I think they look good, and so does Rollo) but perhaps not everyone will like them.

If someone would like to host the new images let me know.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Is it there a direct button for intelligence now or do we still have to click on diplomacy first and then on intelligence?

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I give the new splash screen a big thumbs up

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hay, that is not a fair comment. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Email them to admin spaceempires net (insert @ and .) and I can host them on SpaceEmpires.net.

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I'm glad you found the time to redo the buttons after our little conversation a couple of days ago!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">conversation? what conversation? (isn't selective alsheimers wonderful?)

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

P.S. Fyron I sent the NewButtons.zip to your e-mail. Thanks.

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any way you can post a link so those of us without gold can see the new pic?

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david I no longer have the buttons you created for me.... they were great... Do I have to follow the masses and get the same buttons or can you comission a tesco button set just for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Which natually of course will be available for down load by others..... I think that one of the buttons like end turn should be a beer bottle. And another one should be a beer glass http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif


And Yes..... The intro is nice Interesting cloud coverage.... I am guessing it is not canada there...

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*sniff*
*sniff*

It's so beautiful...

Great job Dave; Keep making 'em great!

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the new splash screen is brilliant! well done, and thanks to both David and MM.

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It is truely great David.

PS: How the hell do you do it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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the new 'main' and 'orders' buttons can be found here...
New Buttons

enjoy, and thanks again Fyron.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ February 27, 2004, 01:15: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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DAVID nice work on the new splash screen for the patch. I love it.

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The new startup screen is beautiful! It's much more dramatic and exciting than the old one... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Great work, David.

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Well I must say I was pleasantly surprised with the new orders buttons. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif They look really cool (I was expecting to find that annoying white dot in the corners of all the buttons like in the avatars. Don't ask me why that bugs me cause I can't explain it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

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Umm... looks to me like they have the white dot. The Main.bmp does, anyway.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">He's talking about the 'Order's' buttons. The 'Options' buttons I did way back when I did the 'guest speaker' gig over at #se4. (about a year ago I think.)

Anyway, I'm glad people like them.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hay, that is not a fair comment. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sure it is. This is a thread to talk about the great job David did on the splash screen and not about the music.

If you want to change the subject, you should start a new topic. That way others can see what you want to discuss and join in. Maybe we should take this discussion to another thread...

BTW, great job David... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Gees, sorry for posting. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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Topic drift is not such a bad thing... in fact, it is the norm, not the exception.

[ February 27, 2004, 22:37: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i'll remember to bring that up next time you accuse me of hijacking threads. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Guys, please don't make me ask for proper netiquette...


WOOT! Just installed DEG's new buttons! I feel all flashy now.

What else can be customized??? Can't the victory/death pics be changed? What about the pics in the center pane of the event log? I wonder if he has any plans to redo any of these.

*rubs hands together*

Slick.

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Really good artwork of great talent, but not for my 19" monitor http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
And why, WHY this star is BLACK? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">it is an eclipse.

(David really likes those http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif )

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It is a bit distracting, but I guess I can live with it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">FYI: I had the sun originally full bright yellow, but it made the image way too bright. (and if you think it's distracting now you should have seen the first draft.) By using the 'eclipse' It lowered the glare just enough to make it fit in the scene.

Want to know a secret that will make the intro pic more interesting?... The sun is being eclipsed by a sphereworld. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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David it looks fantastic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I love it. You really capture the size of the planets and perspective. Very nicely done. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

So in Se V are we going to have rotating planets Gifs?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Same here, a bit late but nontheless: 3 cheers for the cool pic http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif